Necktie-holder.



0. H. OHLY.

NBGKTIB HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 27, 1911.

1,016,357. Patented Feb. 6, 1912.

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. IIWENTOR WITNESSES COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH 120-, WASHINGTON. D. :27

CHARLES H. OHLY, OF SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY.

NECKTIE-I-IOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1912.

Application filed. March 27, 1911. Serial No. 617,013.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. OI-ILY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Summit, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Necktie-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of necktie holders represent-ed by the one shown in my prior application Serial No. 580,818, filed September 7, 1910, and which serve to hold a necktie in place upon a wearer without it extending clear around the wearers neck.

The objects of the, present improvements are to provide a wire holder having means for engaging a collar-button which can be varied in height to accommodate either high or low collars; to enable such adjustment to take place automatically, and to this end to form the lower ends of the lateral loops of the holder in a resilient extension; to secure the ends of the wire forming such extension loosely around the attaching means, so that they can turn thereon; to provide a compressible holder upon which either a small knot or a large one can be tied; to provide means for concealing the lateral loops even though only a very small knot is tied, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several figures, Figure 1 is a front view of my improved holder as it appears when worn with a high collar, the collar being shown in dotted lines, and no tie shown, for greater clearness; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the holder as it appears when worn with a low collar, showing the compression which ocours, and also showing the front extension upon which the tie is knotted as stretched or extended laterally so that the necktie will form a larger knot; Fig. 3 is an end or side view of the necktie holder; Fig. 4 is a section upon line AA of Fig. 1, looking in the direct-ion indicated by the arrow, and Fig. 5 is a section taken on line BB of Fig. 4, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

In said drawings, 1 indicates a wire frame constituting the body portion of my improved holder, said body portion having lateral loops 2, 2 adapted to projectunder Fig. 1, to enable a very small tight; k

to be tied upon it if desired. The wearer changes the shape of this closed loop 3 with his fingers, according to the size of the knot in which he wishes to arrange his necktie. At the top of the said loop or front extension 3 the wire is twisted together, as at 4, and from thence the strands diverge laterally and somewhat rearwardly and are returned to form the lateral loops 2, 2. The

returned portions of the wire lie below the r i said upper arms 5, 5 of the loops and from the inner ends of the lower arms 6, 6 the ends of the wire curve gently downward, as at 7 7 and crossing each other are curled beneath and around the neck of an attaching socket-piece 8. This secures the said attaching socket-piece to the rear downward extension of the holder formed by the downwardly curved portion 7, 7, but the said ends 9 of the wire are not wrapped so tightly upon the neck of the socket-piece, but that they can slip or turn thereon. It will be noted that saidportions 7 7 have their convexities inward, or each toward the opposite loop, and that after crossing each other each arm extends downward around the socket-piece at the opposite side thereof from the loop to which the arm is attached. This insures that the arms are of maximum length and resiliency, and that when pressed downward the curved portions simply bend still more, and thus increase their resiliency or resistance to bending. Normally the said rear extension formed by the downwardly curved portions 7, 7 stretches out to its full length, somewhat as shown in Fig. 1, but the holder is always ready to accommodate itself to a low collar by compression of the said rear extension, as shown in Fig. 2. Here the downwardly curved portions 7, 7 are bent upward carrying the lower arms 6, 6 with them, so as to shorten the rear downward extension carrying the socketpiece 8, materially, and in doing this the ends 9 of the wire wrapped around the said the cap 10 and serves to clamp the ends 9, 9

of the wire therebetween.

Preferably a shield '13 is perforated to receive the neck 11 andis mounted thereupon with the wireends -9, 9, said shield lying in; front of said wireends, or betweenthem and the cap 10 of the socket. piece. This shield 13 extends upward and glaterallytoward both sides so as to lie in frontof theicurved portion 7, 7 of the wire and to-extend somewhat along the lower arms 6, 6' of thelateral loops 2, 2. Said shield not only protects the knot of the tie r from rubbing against the said wire parts,

but furthermore the shield is made of white celluloid or other suitable material so that it overlies any portions of the wire arms .6, 6 which might otherwise show with a r v very low collar cut wide open inthe front between the knot and the edges of the wings of the collar. With the shield, any such spaces are bridged or covered, as clearly shown in the drawings, and a neat' and pleasing appearance is obtained.

Havlng thus described the invention, what I claim is:

l. A necktie holder comprising a rearwardly opening socket-piece adapted to receive the ball-head of a collar button, said socket-piece having front and rear laterally projecting portions and an intermediate neck, and a wire frame having lateral loops adapted'to project under the wings of a collar and front and rear downward extensions, the front extension constituting a flexible form for knotting a tie upon and the rear extension comprising resilient arms constituting continuations of the lower sides of the lateral loopscurved downward across each other'each to the opposite side of the neck of the socket-piece from its loop and curled around said neck, the convexity of each arm being toward the opposite loop and said arms being free from each other so as to bend from said socket-piece each independent of the other, said laterally projecting portions of the socket-piece holding the arms so curled around the neck of the socket-piece between themselves, whereby said arms are connected to each other, the socket-piece is connected to the wire frame and an attaching means provided.

2. A necktie holder comprising a wire frame having lateral loops adapted to project under the wings of a collar and front and rear downward extensions, the front extension constituting a tie form and the rear extension being formed of the ends of the wire and providing attaching means, and a shield mounted upon the front side of said rear extension and projecting over the said extension to lie between it and the front extension,

3. A necktie holder comprising a rearwardly opening socket piece having a neck, a wireframe having lateral loops adapted to project under the wings of a collar and front and rear downward extensions, the front extension constituting a form for knotting a tie and the rear extension comprising resilient arms bent downward from the lower sides of the lateral loops and curled around the neck of said socket-piece, and a shield apertured to receive said neck of the socket-piece and lying between the head of the socket piece and said arms, said shield projecting over the said arms and adapted to cover the entire portions thereof which are exposed by the collar.

CHARLES H. OHLY. In the presence of 1 CORNELIUS ZABRISKIE,

FRANCES E. BLODGETT.

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